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Selections from my Record Collection : the sound of Japan...
I was searching for inspiration for making another blog post (something different than the normal monthly reviews) when I realised that...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Primevil - Smokin' Bats At Campton's (1974)
I really dislike cliché categorisations of artists and music to "trendy" genres. I do not consider myself a professional music writer or...
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- Dec 5, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Harkonen - Shake Harder Boy (2002)
Back in the early 2000s it was the period when Mathcore was the "Toast of the Town" and during that time I was purchasing, mainly via...
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- Nov 28, 2020
- 2 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Rollins Band - The End of Silence (1992)
I bought this album back in 2003 (that is more than 10 years after its original release) mainly driven by my newly (at that time)...
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- Nov 21, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Blues Creation : Blues Creation/Demon & Eleven Children
Ever since I made the post about the debut album of Carmen Maki, I felt the urge to "complete" it by writing about the first two albums...
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- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
Selections from my Record Collection : The 10 Best Greek Punk Albums
Greek Punks 1985 (Photo Credits : Giorgos Tourkovassilis) The usual perception about "music taste" in Greece is that it is a country...
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- Oct 24, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : G.I.S.M. - Detestation (1983)
Some of this week's most exciting news were about the upcoming official re-release (by Relapse Records) of G.I.S.M.s classic 1983 album...
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- Oct 11, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Egypt - Egypt (1988)
This is an obscure, even though not (anymore) rare album by a band whose activity is difficult to be tracked on the internet (this is to...
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- Oct 2, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band (1975)
"The first Whitesnake Album", "The Bolin/Coverdale Album", "Not a Real Deep Purple Album" are some of the titles that Come Taste the Band...
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- Sep 26, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Joe Lally - There to Here (2006)
In one of my previous blogposts I was referring to the way I "consume" printed media nowadays and especially to my appreciation for...
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- Sep 19, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (1964)
It was my adoration for extreme and technical genres -like mathcore- that lead me to explore Jazz. Improvisation, creativity and freedom...
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- Sep 12, 2020
- 2 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Stonewall - S/T (1976)
This is an album behind which lies a tragic and unfair story, a story which also shows how greedy and exploitative the music industry...
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- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations (1969)
Wire magazine has placed Illuminations amongst its '100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening'. Steve Hackett of...
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- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection - Kim Jung Mi - Now (1973)
The post about Carmen Maki, served as an inspiration to present one more female Asian artist that created music which "defied" the...
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- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Carmen Maki - Blues Creation (1971)
It has been (and still is) a very busy period and one of my little personal relaxation/decompression rituals is my Saturday night...
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- Aug 16, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : The Comes - No Side (1983)
The post about OXZ provided me the idea to explore deeper the "Japanese" part of my collection and I think that there is no better way to...
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- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Sicher - Sicher (1981)
I have many times written about how important I consider the CD format in helping rediscovering obscure and (thus) expensive releases of...
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- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Shane Pacey Trio
I like to call myself a record collector. For nearly 30 years I have been collecting records, CDs, Cassette-tapes, DVDs, Books,...
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- Jul 25, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : OXZ Along Ago: 1981 - 1989
From a genre purists perspective, the "association" of OXZ with the punk scene bares similarities to the case of Fugazi. Emerging from...
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- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Selections from my Record Collection : Bullet Lavolta - the Gift (1989)
I always had the feeling that "the Gift" is one of those albums that were released in the wrong time. The year was 1989 and - for those...
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